Here's a complete, ready-to-launch Product Hunt package — written to fit PH's culture (authentic, maker-driven, concrete, not salesy). --- ## Tagline (the one-liner in the feed — max 60 chars) **Pick one:** 1. `The free citation tool that checks your sources are real` ⭐ (my rec) 2. `Cite anything in seconds — and catch fake AI citations` 3. `Free, honest citation generator — no ads, no dark patterns` ## Description (~260 char field) > Corroba is a free, no-ads citation generator that's actually accurate — every source is checked against real databases (Crossref, PubMed, OpenAlex), so it never invents one. It also verifies whole bibliographies, catches fake AI citations, finds free PDFs, and more. No sign-up. ## Maker's first comment (the most important part — post this the second you launch) > Hey Product Hunt 👋 > > I'm Colin, and I built Corroba because every citation tool I've used felt *hostile*. EasyBib and its cousins bury you in ads and pop-ups, paywall basic APA, and dark-pattern you into subscriptions. And now ChatGPT will happily hand you a perfectly-formatted citation for a paper that doesn't exist. > > So I made the opposite: a citation tool that's free, clean, and — most importantly — **honest.** > > Corroba never invents a citation. Every source is pulled from real bibliographic databases (Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed, Open Library), so it's grounded in a real record, not made up. Paste a link, DOI, ISBN, or title → get a correct citation in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, or any of 10,000+ styles. > > Then it goes further than a generator: > - **Verify** — paste a bibliography and it checks every reference against real databases, flagging anything it *can't* find, that's mismatched, broken, or retracted. (Perfect for sanity-checking an AI-assisted paper.) > - **Source quality** — tells you if a source is peer-reviewed, a preprint, or just a webpage. > - **Integrity** — checks your writing against the sources you actually cited. > - Plus little things I always wished existed: convert a citation between styles, find a *legal* free PDF of a paywalled paper, and an "explain this citation" mode that teaches you **why** it's formatted the way it is. > > Everything core is **free forever — no sign-up, no ads.** There's dark mode and a dyslexia-friendly font too. > > I'm a solo maker and this is very much a labor of love. I'd genuinely love your feedback, your best citation-tool horror story, and any styles or features you want me to add. 🙏 > > → **corroba.com** ## Gallery (upload 4–6 visuals; PH is visual-first) 1. **Thumbnail/first image:** the home page hero ("Cite anything in seconds — correctly") with the input box — clean, on-brand. 2. **A short GIF (best converter):** paste a messy citation → pick a style → watch it become a verified, formatted citation. This "aha" is your strongest hook. 3. **Verify report** — the health score + "1 of 2 verified / not found" (shows the anti-hallucination angle). 4. **Explain-this-citation** — the annotated citation with the "why" breakdown (very shareable, unique). 5. **Free-PDF finder** — "Read free PDF" result. 6. **Dark mode** — the home page in dark (shows polish + accessibility). *(You have all of these from today — the screenshots I took work as-is.)* ## Topics / tags `Education` · `Productivity` · `Writing` · `Artificial Intelligence` ## A few prepped replies (paste when the comments start) - **"How is this different from EasyBib/MyBib?"** → "Two things: it's genuinely free with zero ads or paywalled styles, and it's grounded in real databases so it won't invent a source — plus it can *verify* a whole bibliography, which no free tool does." - **"Is it really free / what's the catch?"** → "Genuinely free, no sign-up. Long-term I might add a paid tier for power features like cloud sync, but core citing + verifying stays free forever. No ads." - **"Can it check my ChatGPT citations?"** → "Yes — that's exactly what Verify is for. Paste them in and it flags any it can't find in a real database."

Corroba - Free, accurate citation

Cite AI, Verify Links, How To Cite

Cite AI, Verify Links, How To Cite